So this week Elder Staley  and I decided we wanted to learn a few new knots to tie. There is this new french knot going around the mission that looks like you parted your tie, like we do our hair. so we decided, why not just blow that knot out of the water and look super fly. So we learned what we are calling the Trifecta and the Eldrege knot. The trifecta is the one that looks like it has 3 sides all point to the same spot. The Eldrege one is this cascading epic looking one that looks like a staircase of pure awesomeness. Ya we are looking pretty fly with these knots.

So the other  pictures that I have for you is some water painting that I did while at a members house the other day. We needed to do laundry real bad and our usual person was unavailable so we asked another ward member if we could do it at their place. While we waited for the laundry to be done we sat down with Luke, their 3 year old child, and decided to join him in doing water colors. The pictures you see is what I ended up painting. I know, I am an expert painter. You are all free to determine what the interpretation of the paintings are.

So this week we saw Hannah again, and we watched the Restoration DVD. It went well and after we talked about her interest in the church. She still does want to learn, so that is a relief to hear. She has felt the spirit so much from the Book of Mormon that she can't deny what she felt. I think she is just afraid of making the change. I am sure there are parents and friends involved that will make the change hard on her but we will try and show her that any price paid for this is worth it.

We also met with a new investigator named Tiffany Brown. She is a referral from Grove, Oklahoma whose dad and grandma are members. We called her last Saturday night and she said she would come to church, but then called to let us know she wouldn't be able to come to church on Sunday morning. We met with her on Wednesday and when we walked in she had a roommate sitting in the living room and she told us that 2 more would be joining for the lesson too. Sweet! so we taught all 4 of them and gave them all copies of the Book of Mormon. We tried our best to talk up the Book or Mormon so they might actually read it. We won't be meeting with her this week because she is back in Oklahoma for the week but we will be visiting her next week. more news on her as it develops.

We also tracted into an atheist on Thursday and talked to him for a good hour and a half. We would have stayed and ate dinner with him l but we had another dinner appointment to get to. He was rather interesting, he said he wouldn't believe a sign even if one was shown to him (so at least he understood that faith was not grown from seeing signs), but he said he spent the first 22 years of his life looking for god and that, "god doesn't answer his cell phone. You know he has caller I.D. and voice mail but he still doesn't answer or call you back."  He as nice enough but just sad to see him in that way. We later talked to a member about it, Brother Cubette, and he told us about Pascal's Wager. You should look that up if you have time or have never heard of it. But to summarize it up, it says that there is no rational way to prove there is a god, so every one wagers on weather there is a god or not. Depending on how we put our wager is how we live. If we wager there is a god, then we live the commandments. if we were right in our wager we get heaven, if we wrong we have happiness in this life. If you wager there is no god then you will not live the commandments. If you are right in your wager, then we all die after an unhappy life and cease to exist. If you are wrong in that wager then you go to hell (just to put it simply). so it is better to just wager there is a god and call it good.

Well I have talked far too much and not said much at all. Thank you for listening and thank you for all the prayers and love. Thank you all for all you do and the sacrifices that you all make for others in your life. 

p.s. so apparently I have to much in this letter so i will send 2 letters. the second one will have more picture